The Lake Ridge Eagles will head out on the road to challenge the Mansfield Legacy Broncos at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Lake Ridge has been dominant on offense recently, as they've racked up an incredible 1,239 points over their last 18 contests.
Lake Ridge stacked a ninth blowout win onto their ever-increasing hoard on Friday. They put the hurt on DeSoto with a sharp 78-57 win. Given Lake Ridge's advantage in MaxPreps' Texas basketball rankings (they are ranked ninth, while the Eagles are ranked 130th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Lake Ridge to victory, but perhaps none more so than Ehi Akharoh, who scored 19 points along with five rebounds. As a matter of fact, that's the most points Akharoh has scored all season. Amir McMillian was another key contributor, scoring 17 points.
Meanwhile, Mansfield Legacy pushed their score all the way to 61 on Friday, but even that wasn't enough to win. They fell just short of Waxahachie by a score of 63-61. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game on Tuesday (57), Mansfield Legacy still had to take the loss.
Lake Ridge has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won 18 of their last 21 matches, which provided a nice bump to their 25-5 record this season. As for Mansfield Legacy, they dropped their record down to 10-18 with that loss, which was their fifth straight on the road.
Lake Ridge strolled past the Broncos in their previous matchup back in January by a score of 70-54. The rematch might be a little tougher for Lake Ridge since the squad won't have the home-court advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
